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“Technology’s moved on far too much to sell people things like this anymore”: Back in 1984, Ultravox’s Midge Ure dismissed the Minimoog as an “antique” and was embracing a digital synth future with the PPG Wave

“It’s actually an antique synthesizer now, 15 years old,” Ure says of his “very basic” Model D

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“As all popes do, they have their reign and then we continue forward”: What happened the night Ghost’s Papa Emeritus I passed the torch to Papa II onstage

Though we all expect Ghost to change singers between albums nowadays, the ascension of Papa Emeritus II was unprecedented at the time

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"Inhumanly fast arpeggios and chords requiring more than ten fingers to play": Kelly Moran duets with a Disklavier and goes beyond the "physical limits" of a human piano player on her new project

Moves in the Field finds the Warp Records artist pushing the boundaries of piano composition through the use of a self-playing Yamaha Disklavier

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Drake's Electrifying Performance: A Concert To Remember

Drake's recent concert wowed fans with a spectacular performance, showcasing his musical talent and leaving the audience in awe.

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Beats Solo 4 tipped for a big audio upgrade

The next generation of Apple's popular Beats on-ear headphones could be arriving imminently with improved audio features

“People will write about how certain songs don’t have guitar in them, and I chuckle because it’s all guitar! It thrusts its hips the way nothing else can”: How Torres uses her Telecaster as a divining rod for strut and glitter

Torres isn’t interested in vintage gear – her pedalboard is kitted out to make her Fender sound like a synthesizer on her dance-guitar bops

Guitar World

"Over time, Guitar Tricks has honed its content to be fun, engaging and motivating": Guitar Tricks review

Veteran online guitar tuition site continues to grow bigger and better with every passing year

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“So proud!” Olivia Rodrigo is gigging a custom purple St. Vincent Goldie signature guitar – and the one-off Music Man has a story behind it

The singer-songwriter recently hit the road for her 2024 tour accompanied by one of the best-looking Goldie models to date

Guitar World

“Many people think I was doing it all on the Rickenbacker in the ’80s, but a lot of the clean arpeggio stuff was done on a Les Paul”: Johnny Marr on the most prized guitars in his collection – and why they might not be what you expect

From his bonkers nine-pickup Strat to the Les Paul he gifted to Noel Gallagher, The Smiths great has traced his entire career through the prism of his amazing collection of guitars. Why don’t all our guitar heroes do this?

Guitar World

Tarja shares new single edit of Dark Star ahead of What Lies Beneath reissue

Finnish singer Tarja's 2010 album What Lies Beneath to be remastered and reissued with extra disc

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Gabriels live at Ronnie Scotts review: one of London's best gigs in years

Playing into the wee hours at the iconic jazz bar, Jacob Lusk put on a memorable show for BRITs Week 24 for War Child in Soho

Evening Standard

Kanye West sued by estate of Donna Summer over ‘stealing’ I Feel Love

Estate of late star files lawsuit claiming rapper was denied sample for Vultures album, but tried to circumvent them with interpolation

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Everyone Knows That: can you identify the lost 80s hit baffling the internet?

Entire online communities have developed around naming this 17-second snippet of catchy pop – and three years after it was uploaded no one has solved the mystery

The Guardian - UK

“Tony Hill’s experiments in six-string overload go to places even Hendrix feared to tread… Simon House’s sonic attack is equal to anything he did with Hawkwind”: High Tide’s Sea Shanties reissue

Remastered vinyl edition retains the apocalyptic heavy psych and proto-prog first delivered in 1969

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"One night we sat down and did the entire thing on a cassette set-up – it was magnificent!": How a set of unfinished, acid-fried songs about a mythical superhero could have been Jimi Hendrix’s last album

Black Gold was an unfinished, autobiographical suite that may have provided the foundation for Jimi Hendrix's fifth studio album

The Guardian - AU

Fred Again at Sydney Opera House review – a record-breaking, turbocharged night

About 125,000 people tried to get tickets for this surprise show, announced by the savvy British DJ on the day – and the result was a direct hit to the brain’s pleasure centres

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In 1972 Slade made their way to Manchester to film a TV show for an audience of ambivalent teenagers: The result was brilliant

If anyone ever demands proof of Slade's legendary live prowess, show them this Set of 6 performance

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Surprise! Courtney Love joined Green Day covers project The Coverups onstage for three songs in London last night

Hole star Courtney Love joined Billie Joe Armstrong & Co. for versions of songs by Cheap Trick and Tom Petty

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Suzi Quatro to celebrate 60 year reign as official Queen of Rock and Roll with five-date UK tour

Suzi Quatro's 2024 tour dates come 60 years after the glam legend formed her first band, the Pleasure Seekers

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Sepultura announces drummer Eloy Casagrande’s exit from the band, naming Greyson Nekrutman as his replacement, while Casagrande promises to “See you soon on the road!” as Slipknot rumours ramp up

“Maybe for the band’s fans it doesn’t make sense at this point, but decisions needed to be made thinking about new cycles that will come”, says Eloy Casagrande

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"It's going to be a great party for all!": Journey announce 50th anniversary tour dates with Cheap Trick

Journey's 50th anniversary tour will arrive in Europe this autumn and Cheap Trick will be on board

Evening Standard

Best guitar effects pedals to sculpt your sound, from reverb to overdrive

Explore the versatility of your electric guitar or bass

Latin Times

Bachata Royalty Aventura Announces Final North American Tour: A Look at a Historic Farewell

The iconic Bachata band has announced their final North American tour, "La Última Gira." It will start on May 1 in Sacramento

Evening Standard

OPINION - British pop is slowly dying and all hope now rests with one band

It was the Grammys that revealed the problem. With just one meagre British winner in more than 80 categories and with no new UK pop acts breaking into the American chart, it’s obvious that British pop has faded as an influence on the global music stage.

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“It captures this dreamy, otherworldly tone that is really unique”: Orangewood unveils the Juniper, a $395 parlour-sized acoustic with a rail humbucker, rubber bridge and heaps of lo-fi indie mojo

Rubber bridges were the must-have acoustic mod of 2023 and now they're on production run guitars like this – but it's the humbucker pairing and trapeze tailpiece that seals the deal

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